Hi Lisa:
Wanted to let you know I always enjoy your posts and your writing style and sense of humor!
We have adopted 2 girls - both at birth. We started looking for number 2 when number 1 was about 8 months old, thinking that it would take a while. Our oldest was 2.5 when our 2nd was born. We have a large house (5 bedrooms) so now the girls each have their own room. Our 5th bedroom is on the 1st floor so it's the computer room. All the rest are on the 2nd floor.
I don't think our homestudy agency required that the kids have their own rooms.
With our youngest, we got through with ICPC shortly before Christmas, 2004, and had a ton of guests coming for the holidays. We have a large master bedroom so assembled the crib in our room from the minute we got home, and ended up having both girls in our room while the guests were here
so that our guests had a place to sleep, and then got back to normal just before New Year's. We started our younger daughter in her own room then (she was about 3 weeks old) and she's been there ever since.
The bedroom that our older daughter is in has 2 twin beds in it now, and if the girls want to share a room when they're a little older it's available to them - but I assume by the time they're teenagers they'll probably want to be at opposite ends of the house from each other!!
Good luck on your journey for baby #2! I'm personally going a little crazy lately since our oldest (age 3.5) has been extremely whiny for about the last week and dh left town this morning for a week long business trip!
But overall, having 2 is the perfect number for us. I don't think I have the energy to go for #3! (BTW, after reading your "grandma thread" I had to tell you that we were at a dinner the other night and someone asked me if DH was my son! I'm 46 and he's 43. I made sure the guy was mortified for asking!!!
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Sandy